Bridgend (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Jeppe Rønde
	Actors: Hannah Murray, Steven Waddington, Josh O'Connor
	Country: DK
	Genre: Drama, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 06.11.2015, CineStar1, NFDL2015, English
Synopsis: Sara (Murray) and her dad Dave (Waddington) arrive to a small village in Bridgend County. The village is haunted by suicides amongst its young inhabitants, and Sara falls dangerously in love with one of the teenagers, Jamie (O'Connor) while Dave as the town's new policeman tries to stop the mysterious chain of suicides.
Review: The story of the film is based on a mysterious suicide cluster that took place in Bridgend County, a small former coal-mining province in Wales. Between December 2007 and January 2012 seventy-nine suicides were officially committed in the area. Most of the victims were teenagers, they hanged themselves and left no suicide notes. Danish documentary filmmaker Jeppe Rønde followed the teenagers from the area for six years and wrote the script based on their life stories. Bridgend is Rønde's fiction film debut. It is entirely shot on location.  The investigation follows two traces, the new policeman in town and the new girl (his daughter) in town. The atmosphere generated is some kind of light version of David Lynch's Twin Peaks. The parallelism is stunning especially with the pictures of woods and hills. The mysterious atmosphere is coming also with the lack of goal and sense at screaming, partying, naked night swimming.  The whole movie is enhancing the mystery, the lights, the actions, the dialogues, the scenery. When I look at pictures of the real town of Bridgend, they look completely different. This means attention has been taken to shoot with the right day light and this is a great job.
Rating: 7 /10